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Guild Recruiter

Guild Recruiter

Guild Recruiter is a 5 Mana Cost Common Neutral Minion card from the Kobolds & Catacombs set!

Card Text

Battlecry: Recruit a minion that costs (4) or less.

Flavor Text

The original telemarketer.

Type
Minion
Rarity
Common
Set
Kobolds & Catacombs
Class
Neutral
Cost
5
Attack
2
Health
4
Minion Type
Draenei
Mechanics
Battlecry, Recruit
Artist
Arthur Bozonnet
Collectible
Yes

Card Review & Interactions

Another card that features the new Recruit mechanic from Kobolds and Catacombs. Tutoring up minions is always powerful no matter how you do it, so the question becomes what you can use with this to make it stand out. As a 5 mana 2/4, you need to be pulling out some serious stats or effects on the board to make up for the low impact of the Recruiter himself. If it didn't have the "or less" clause, the card would be beyond overpowered, especially in Shaman where everybody's favourite 4 mana 7/7 resides. That said, it does feature the last two words of its text, so you can potentially pull a 1-drop with it, which is nowhere near as exciting. It can be custom fit to straight up tutor exactly what you want with a lot of creative deckbuilding, but that means running very few minions and giving up the board early for a deck that wants to... play for the board. As it stands, it seems like a solid card in 3 and 4-drop-heavy zoo lists with very little use outside of that, but this card is just waiting for the right target to become the next Barnes. Imagine a 4 mana minion with "Battlecry: You lose the game." and "Deathrattle: You win the game." - though a little extreme, this is a type of minion that Recruiter wants to enlist for his guild and one that can have a deck created around it, a la Barnes/Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound Hunter.

Card Review by Chimbarozo

18 Comments

  1. deepfear

    it is favoured in agroo decks imo. not so bad.

    1. Wut

      As much as i want for this to work, 5 mana 3/5 isnt a good aggro card.

      1. Nope

        So run it in N'zoth deathrattle and it has 'draw a card' most of the time.

  2. Yarvi

    Know who has 4 or less atk? Malygos bby. I WANT TO BELIEVE

    1. Threather

      It is mana cost, not attack. Sorry baby.

  3. Threather

    I see some synergy with druid without mire keeper because you can practically choose your minion. Hunter has too much earlygame to want to run this. For other classes than that, I dont see it being the best choice for your deck. Maybe some deathrattle decks.

    2/5, might be mvp for druids.

  4. bell

    5 mana 2/4 summon a 4 mana 7/7 from your deck. RIP in advance

    1. Wut

      Add 4/7, 7/4, any many more for extra measure.

    2. whoaminoneofyourbusiness

      5 mana 2/4 that summons a 4/3 with charge is also pretty good

  5. DumbEndumber

    Umm, well, it has, umm...

    Yeah, got it! it synergizes with the three Princes from Knights of the Forzen Throne! Just make sure you have no 1-drops either and you are good to go!

    1. PandaWolf525

      Does not work the way you think it does. This Summons the Creature to the Battlefield so you do not get any Battlecries off.

  6. crapcrack

    shaman! Flamewreathed Faceless! BOOM!!!

    1. Nope

      Looks like it's better in warlock zoo. Shaman has less consistency from this card unfortunately.

      1. simplemicsimpleton

        I disagree I think this card fits well with Shaman overload deck
        In an overload deck you'll stick in a 4 mana 7/7 and a 3 mana 2/8 with taunt sure you won't get overload but you'll still get decent states on the board for a 5 mana card with no draw back

        1. crapcrack

          yeah exactly u don't get overloaded, u gain tempo and i personally think Guild Recruiter works best 4 Shaman

          1. Nope

            It's similar to barnes and may have a use in evolve shaman. But Dr. 2 is not very shaman compatible so I wouldn't use recruiter for tempo shaman.

          2. crapcrack

            lul i did not say "Tempo Shaman", i said it's a good tempo card. This card is good in a big Shaman with high cost minions, 4 mana 7/7's and removal spells.

  7. SpyderBob

    I think this might be viable in Keleseth rogue as a one of considering whatever it grabs will be buffed and if you manage to get two ticks on him before hand, them stats start looking realy good. Worst case senario, it's just another way to get more creatures out for your Bonemare or Dragon to buff.

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